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Public Administration in Southeast Asia Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Macao

Public Administration in Southeast Asia: Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Macao

1st Edition

Edited By Evan M. Berman
November 18, 2010

While public administration practice and education in general has become considerably professionalized in the last decade, existing knowledge on public administration in Southeast Asia is fragmented at best, and often devoid of a useful reference. While journal articles and government reports ...

Sustainable Development Policy and Administration

Sustainable Development Policy and Administration

1st Edition

Edited By Gedeon M. Mudacumura, Desta Mebratu, M. Shamsul Haque
December 21, 2005

Sustainable Development Policy and Administration provides a learning resource describing the major issues that are critical to understanding the multiple dimensions of sustainable development. The overall theme of each contributed chapter in this book is the urgent need to promote global ...

The Art and Practice of Court Administration

The Art and Practice of Court Administration

1st Edition

By Alexander B. Aikman
December 15, 2006

The Art and Practice of Court Administration explores the context in which court administration is practiced and identifiesthe qualities and skills court administrators need. Divided into two major parts, part one covers the history of the field and how courts are organized, environmental ...

The Politics-Administration Dichotomy Toward a Constitutional Perspective, Second Edition

The Politics-Administration Dichotomy: Toward a Constitutional Perspective, Second Edition

2nd Edition

By Patrick Overeem
April 03, 2012

The politics-administration dichotomy is much mentioned and often criticized in the Public Administration literature. The Politics-Administration Dichotomy: Toward a Constitutional Perspective, Second Edition offers a book-length treatment of this classical notion. While public administration ...

Understanding Research Methods A Guide for the Public and Nonprofit Manager

Understanding Research Methods: A Guide for the Public and Nonprofit Manager

1st Edition

By Donijo Robbins
October 28, 2008

Managers and administrators in the public-policy and nonprofit sectors rely heavily on analytical skills to quickly pore through a massive amount of research. They dissect it and apply specific, useful data that can inform critical policy changes and help them improve their organization’s overall ...

The Nonprofit Human Resource Management Handbook From Theory to Practice

The Nonprofit Human Resource Management Handbook: From Theory to Practice

1st Edition

Edited By Jessica Word, Jessica Sowa
June 16, 2017

As an increasing number of individuals go to work in the nonprofit sector, nonprofit managers need support on how best to build their human resource management capacity. They need to know what systems to examine, what questions to ask, and how to ensure they are managing people in a legal manner ...

The Constitutional School of American Public Administration

The Constitutional School of American Public Administration

1st Edition

Edited By Stephanie Newbold, David H. Rosenbloom
October 20, 2016

The growing ‘constitutional school’ of public administration has roots in the Federalist Papers, constitutional law, and the writings of several contemporary leaders and contributors in the field. It is comprised of a loose grouping of scholars who subscribe to the proposition that constitutions ...

Democracy and Civil Society in a Global Era

Democracy and Civil Society in a Global Era

1st Edition

Edited By Scott N. Romaniuk, Marguerite Marlin
April 06, 2016

Democracy and Civil Society in a Global Era addresses challenges to the strengthening of active citizenship. In this highly-structured work, the themes presented are linked to fostering a culture of peace and non-violence, the lessening of fear and insecurity in political, economic, social, and ...

Development and the Politics of Human Rights

Development and the Politics of Human Rights

1st Edition

Edited By Scott N. Romaniuk, Marguerite Marlin
December 15, 2015

Despite decades spent confronting human rights violations around the world, particularly in regions of instability, the issue remains one of the most divisive, chaotic, and challenging to address. Development and the Politics of Human Rights takes a much-needed holistic approach. It unpacks the ...

Public Administration and Policy in the Caribbean

Public Administration and Policy in the Caribbean

1st Edition

Edited By Indianna D. Minto-Coy, Evan Berman
June 26, 2015

The Caribbean is at a crucial phase in its development. Global and local pressures have seen the region losing its competitiveness, while it remains at risk of losing out on development gains made in the last few decades. These pressures are demanding improvements in the way government operates, ...

The Economic Survival of America's Isolated Small Towns

The Economic Survival of America's Isolated Small Towns

1st Edition

By Gerald L. Gordon
June 26, 2015

The economic history of the recent decade has been volatile at best, and devastating at its worst. The effects have tended to be most severe in the small, isolated towns of America. The Economic Survival of America's Isolated Small Towns presents a detailed discussion of the economic challenges ...

Sustainable Development and Human Security in Africa Governance as the Missing Link

Sustainable Development and Human Security in Africa: Governance as the Missing Link

1st Edition

Edited By Louis A. Picard, Terry F. Buss, Taylor B. Seybolt, Macrina C. Lelei
April 22, 2015

Many new development initiatives have been introduced in Africa over the past few decades. Each of these has been heralded as marking a new era in the continent’s development. However, many of these initiatives have failed to produce sustained results due to numerous challenges, including, most ...

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